Entre-Temps is a free, collaborative digital journal of contemporary history affiliated with Patrick Boucheron’s chair at the Collège de France, launched in October 2018.
Entre-Temps is a public service for history taking the form of an open space, dedicated to a pluralistic, joyful, interdisciplinary, and intermedia approach to history. It is a space for exchange, debate, creation, and production.
Entre-Temps aims to highlight diverse content (whether exclusive or sourced from the internet). We seek to highlight the diversity and inventiveness of new forms of historical writing by identifying, promoting, and connecting them.
One of Entre-Temps ’s goals is to offer a rich and diverse perspective on the ways in which history is constructed and unfolds. Our journal offers a behind-the-scenes look at the “how it’s done” of research, writing, and dissemination. It focuses less on “finished products” than on the paths taken, the approaches followed, and the methods employed. This is one of its unique features, which makes it a public service for history: helping everyone discover how a topic and a work are created, whether they be books, films, exhibitions, or works of art. The dynamics and the process are just as essential as the results achieved. Entre-Temps is a work-in-progress of history, a journey through its present-day action.
In the way it reveals the construction sites and the making of structures, the intermedia dimension is crucial. A unique focus of Entre-Temps is indeed to foster and facilitate dialogues between different worlds, all of which take history as their subject. These may include researchers, teachers, archivists, writers, painters or visual artists, filmmakers, and documentary makers. What matters most lies in their collaborative work, their exchanges, and their complementary perspectives—and sometimes, why not, in the tensions that may arise from the divergences in their approaches and areas of interest.
